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All political organisations have their moments. Local disputes that turn nasty, candidate selections in which gossip curdles into libel and slander. So it is important to be clear. The allegations about the Unite union trying to control the selection of a Labour parliamentary candidate in Falkirk is not a moment like that. It is far more serious.

Falkirk is not a local difficulty that has turned into a national scandal. It is a national scandal that is reflected in a local difficulty. Falkirk’s candidate selection has produced the resignation of Labour’s campaign chief, it has influenced the reshuffle of the